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place from whence it fhot ; and next year, and the years 

 following, you will fee the (lock fend out two or three 

 ilrong llioots ; by this means in a j'nort time vou may 

 have a whole wood of them. I have hkewife feen thcni 

 propagated by taking up the old roots of the trees which 

 have been cut, together with their fibres; then fpiit the 

 roots, preferving as many of the fibres as you can, and 

 plant them again, and they will fend up a great ma- 

 ny noble young (hoots. 



Tbe Birch. 



CONTRARY to what A4r. Evdin fays, and of which 

 Mr. Philip Miller takes no notice, I have raifed a 

 \''all: number of thefe trees from feeds. I bought about 

 four pounds weight, which I lowed in the month of Fe- 

 bruary, in a piece of indifferent ground in a nurfery in 

 my woods, covering them with a quarter of an inch of 

 mould, for thefe feeds cannot endure to be much cover- 

 ed. Over this I fpread fome fmall cuttings of whins, to 

 preferve the feeds from the birds (wjio are very fond of 

 them at this feafon ot the year) which, when the plants 

 appeared, I took away. In this nurfery they remained 

 two years, and afterwards I tranfplanted them out into 

 the woods, pretty thick, and took fome of them home 

 to make plantations of, near my houfe, purely for their 

 fragrance ; for they emit, after a fliower of rain, an odo- 

 riferous flavour. In three )ears after this I ol^lcrved my 

 plants grow very tall, but at the lame time very llender ; 

 and thofe planted in the [)e(l ground were the fmallcrt, 

 mofl: crooked, and the moft wind-waved ; therefore I 

 refolved to cut tbem down within two inches of the 

 ground, and in about four years after I had the mcifl: 

 beautiful plants I ever hw, ftraight, tall, and flrong, and 

 far excelling thofe which I gathered annually in my woods 

 to make nurferies of. I bought alfo from the fame per- 

 fon fome Fir-feed, but that did not come up, which I 

 attributed to its being kiln dried. 



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